The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . te manner, as10 its curious and regular walks and arbours, and laid with large collec-tions of most kinils of fruits and flowers, the fruit-trees being very large,and dressed and pruned in a very elegant manner; so that their wood,and especially that of their orange-trees, was always in a prosperous con-dition, almost ever green, blooming and bearing fiuil. The fruit is sold on the trees by auction when the Sultan is not ths ]iark are several gardens, such as the Mamiiniali, where fcneignembassies are ([uartered, and another where f
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . te manner, as10 its curious and regular walks and arbours, and laid with large collec-tions of most kinils of fruits and flowers, the fruit-trees being very large,and dressed and pruned in a very elegant manner; so that their wood,and especially that of their orange-trees, was always in a prosperous con-dition, almost ever green, blooming and bearing fiuil. The fruit is sold on the trees by auction when the Sultan is not ths ]iark are several gardens, such as the Mamiiniali, where fcneignembassies are ([uartered, and another where foreign merchants visiting thesultans used to be acconnnodated. Tlie walls of the outer .\gud;il art-in a ruinous condition. The best recent description is by Harris. Kl. UkkAni, p. \(\-;. - Kn-N.\siki, vol. iv., p. 177. •* IoRKKS, p. 217. * /.mil/, p. 198. 298 MARRAKESH the Sultans exclusive use, and has in it a large reservoircalled Sahrij el Hana (Tank of Health), on whichMulai el Hasan III. used to keep a little steamboat forhis own IVatei -supply. jN A MARRAKESH STREET. Photograph by Dr. Riidduck. At one time the water supply of Marrakesh was veryabundant, and it is still ample: it dates from the earliestdays, and was extended in 1 189 by Yakubel MansLir. Chenier • says that six thousandsprings (wells?) watered the plain, but that in 1768 itwas with difficulty that twelve hundred could be water is conveyed from a considerable distance—perhaps twenty miles —from the foot of the mountainsby under-ground channels (khotarat) which might almostbe called burrows. As these are seldom bricked or luKKESI, p. 78. Raoii ,/ , p. ;;80. JVA TER-S UP PL y 299 propped, in order to keep them clear, open man-holesare provided at intervals, and on the side of the citytowards the Atlas the ground is full of lines of thesepits, old and new. Although not confined to Marrakesh, this system isnot common elsewhere in Morocco, but it is identicalwith that whi
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